I want to know the difference between windows services and SharePoint services? Are SharePoint services windows services? I read the the services behind the Service Applications are windows services ...

Due to outage last night my workflow servers are having issues. Service Bus Broker Service is stuck at starting stage, But Service gateway and app fabric services are started.
Here are some error i ...

I have a number of sites and noticed one site and its libraries permissions disappeared overnight - when the system service account ran. I narrowed it down to one action - chkperm, which only showed ...

one of our client was adding Excel access webpart to his site and when he clicked on Edit webpart properties, he is not able to see all the properties of Excel access webpart which he should see. When ...

Out of the blue I get errors (edit: in Firebug console) thrown at me when deploying my app. I didn't change anything since last time when I deployed my app (3 days ago).
Error I get when loading the ...

I'm using Sharepoint 2013, I've searched and found tons of articles about this issue but restarting the SharePoint Search Host Controller does fix the issue and forms can be saved again. My problem is ...

I would like to know what's the best practice for installing the latest patches, like CUs or SP 2013 SP1, installing on my development, staging and production environment.
Currently we are developing ...

I have installed a SharePoint farm *SP2013 Windows 2012 R2. I have 2 servers, 1 front end and 1 web application. The database is located in another server. I was thinking about what services should be ...

I got a message from SharePoint that the AppFabric Caching Service was down. When I went to Services to restart it, it restarted fine, but shut down within a few seconds. I went into the Event Viewer, ...

I'm looking to upgrade our 800-person Intranet from SharePoint (Standard) 2010 to 2013. It is a publishing site, with a single site collection and consists of two servers only, Web server and Database ...

Create a web part page by
Site Actions > More Options > Filter by Page > Click Web part page > then Create
Enter a name add to Pages Document Library click Ok,
Within the page click Add Web Part
Add ...

We have a SP 2010 workflow on a Document Library which sends an email notification out to certain users when a property is changed for a document. This workflow was working fine up until 2 weeks ago ...

I have the following Problem. I have an ASP.NET Web Service which contains several administrative methods like creating a site/list/group for a client application. Some of these methods do this using ...

As far as I know SSP (Share Service Provider) is a thing of SharePoint 2007 and in SharePoint 2010 it has been redesigned as SharePoint 2010 service application, but I came across this question online ...

All suggestions and answers are really appreciated.
I have Sharepoint installed on a Test computer and I did something very stupid. I deleted a service account domain\spupsync ( was using it for user ...

A couple of weeks ago I installed SP1 and the June 2011 CU on my SharePoint 2010 environment and since then the service "SharePoint Server Search 14" has been changing its Startup Type from Automatic ...

I know triggering workflows within SharePoint can be started manually/automatically? In the realm of being fired off automatically, I know capabilities of starting workflows if documents are added to ...

I follow this step by step http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff681014.aspx for reset the User Profile Synchronization Service but I need the GUID of the synchronization database. I searched a ...

This is for a new SP 2010 install. I have a server running SP 2010. In IIS I have created an empty web site, "share.example.com". In SP Central Admin, I have created a web application bound to the IIS ...

This is the error I keep getting:
The Windows SharePoint Timer service terminated unexpectedly. It has done this 7 time(s).
The service then restarts and fails 5 minutes later and continues in this ...